Toshiba NB100 Review (APC Mag)

APC Magazine has reviewed the 8.9″ Toshiba NB100 netbook, and it wasn’t pretty. They felt, among other things, that it was hurried and was a “me too” product, calling it “perhaps the most pedestrian of all the netbooks we’ve seen to date“. Toshiba gets credit … Read more

MSI Wind U100 and 9-Cell Batteries

First reports of the third-party 9-cell batteries for the 10.2″ MSI Wind U100 are coming in. Wired Magazine mentioned a thread over at the MSIWind.net forums where somebody ordered one off of ebay. They mentioned that currently, you are looking at over 4 hours with … Read more

Windows 7 Pre-Beta on HP 2133 Mini-Note

We’ve already seen a few instances of Windows 7 on netbooks. Now HP Mini Guide has loaded a Windows 7 Pre-Beta on a VIA-powered HP 2133 Mini-Note. Keep in mind the VIA CPU used (C7-M series) was underpowered compared to the Intel Atoms, etc., that … Read more

Could Acer Beat Asus in Netbook Shipments in 2008?

There is a very distinct possibility that even though Asustek has a large variety of their Asus Eee PC netbooks (from 7″ up to 10″) and had a big lead on everybody at the beginning of 2008, that Acer’s 8.9″ Aspire One could just help … Read more

Apple MacBook – 6GB of RAM

For those of you wanting more than 4GB of RAM with Mac OS X, and wanting to buy one of the new 13.3″ Apple MacBooks (or one of the 15″ MacBook Pros that came out last month, you might just be in luck. Apple will … Read more